Scientists nostalgia: AI made molecule screening instant, but what did we lose?
charlieharris01 · x · 2026-10-30
A researcher shares a moment of reflection after typing len(mols) — he couldn't remember the last time he manually paged through molecules one by one in Jupyter, a process that used to take days. The same check now runs in 0.0s.
He welcomes the speed-up but wonders what got lost along the way: the intuitions and serendipitous discoveries that came from slow, hands-on exploration.
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